Scissor-tailed Flycatchersare
a delight to see. Adults are easily identified by their
long scissor tail.
Our videos are
all taken of a family we found at
Foss State Park, OK. Video 1A Adults go
and come back with food for the fledglings.Video 1B is a slow
motion version of Video 1A.Video 2 shows an adult with two fledglings in the
lower branches of a tree. A third fledgling was watching
off camera. Video 3 shows the second adult resting
briefly in the same tree, a great vantage point
for finding grasshoppers.Scissor-tails like open areas with scattered
trees, but also hunt from wires, as shown in the opening
photos taken at
Black Kettle National Grasslands.